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Cyclone
Young Al White has little patience with losers. They make him sick, and he seems to be surrounded by them. But he can handle anything. He has his whole future planned. Then come the frightening visions that seem to be more and more frequent--visions of a howling black cyclone tearing up everything in its path. But no problem. Al has everything under control. He knows exactly what he wants and he has the drive and determination to achieve it. In fact, he's even about to find the girl of his dreams. Then he meets Ted Fox and the raging storm in his mind breaks free. Al feels himself losing control for the first time in his life as the cyclone begins to tear up his world for real.
272 pages, Paperback
Published November 26, 2013
About the author
John Blumenthal
13 books107 followersBack in the day, I was an editorial staffer at Esquire, and later an editor, writer and columnist at Playboy magazine. Then came four years of screenwriting (2 movies made: "Short Time"-- Fox and "Blue Streak"--Sony) ), followed by my present line of work--novelist. I have plied that trade for about 15 years.
My sixth novel, THE STRANGE COURTSHIP OF ABIGAIL BIRD (Regal House) was published in October 2019. (It recently won the 2019 Next Generation Book Award for Fiction.)
I have written eight other books for publishers such as St. Martin's Press, Simon & Schuster and Ballantine Books. These include the novels, "The Case of the Hardboiled Dicks," "The Tinseltown Murders," the award-winning "What’s Wrong with Dorfman?" and "Millard Fillmore, Mon Amour" as well as the recently-published "Three and a Half Virgins".
My articles have appeared in TV Guide, Punch, The National Lampoon, Los Angeles Times, Today's Health, Mens Life, American Woman, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Chicago Sun Times, Oui, Salon.com, Huff Post, Publishers Weekly and numerous other publications.
I've also written for television and am the co-author of the movies "Blue Streak" (Sony Pictures) and "Short Time" (Fox).
I'm introverted and admittedly somewhat lazy by nature, so I decided to become an author at the age of 9 when I realized I could do it at home. An early influence was Mark Twain, who often wrote in bed in his pajamas,. Very civilized.
I was born in Middletown, NY, the son of a physician and a stay-at-home mom. I attended Tufts University where I majored in English, with a minor in Not-Being-Drafted-And-Sent-To-Vietnam.
My father was both a neurotic and a hypochondriac, which provided me with enough material for two novels. The mere concept of a hypochondriac physician is literary gold.
After college, I became a whale’s tooth polisher (true) for a scrimshaw carver on Nantucket Island. It was during this Melville-esque dental hygiene career that I wrote a humorous, self-deprecating letter to the editor of Esquire and was hired as a fact checker.
I live in Santa Monica, CA with my wife and an adorable but not very bright canine. I have two delightful adult daughters.
Why do I write? Partly because I have a compulsive need to express myself, partly because I don’t have to commute and partly because I’m not much good at anything else.
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My sixth novel, THE STRANGE COURTSHIP OF ABIGAIL BIRD (Regal House) was published in October 2019. (It recently won the 2019 Next Generation Book Award for Fiction.)
I have written eight other books for publishers such as St. Martin's Press, Simon & Schuster and Ballantine Books. These include the novels, "The Case of the Hardboiled Dicks," "The Tinseltown Murders," the award-winning "What’s Wrong with Dorfman?" and "Millard Fillmore, Mon Amour" as well as the recently-published "Three and a Half Virgins".
My articles have appeared in TV Guide, Punch, The National Lampoon, Los Angeles Times, Today's Health, Mens Life, American Woman, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Chicago Sun Times, Oui, Salon.com, Huff Post, Publishers Weekly and numerous other publications.
I've also written for television and am the co-author of the movies "Blue Streak" (Sony Pictures) and "Short Time" (Fox).
I'm introverted and admittedly somewhat lazy by nature, so I decided to become an author at the age of 9 when I realized I could do it at home. An early influence was Mark Twain, who often wrote in bed in his pajamas,. Very civilized.
I was born in Middletown, NY, the son of a physician and a stay-at-home mom. I attended Tufts University where I majored in English, with a minor in Not-Being-Drafted-And-Sent-To-Vietnam.
My father was both a neurotic and a hypochondriac, which provided me with enough material for two novels. The mere concept of a hypochondriac physician is literary gold.
After college, I became a whale’s tooth polisher (true) for a scrimshaw carver on Nantucket Island. It was during this Melville-esque dental hygiene career that I wrote a humorous, self-deprecating letter to the editor of Esquire and was hired as a fact checker.
I live in Santa Monica, CA with my wife and an adorable but not very bright canine. I have two delightful adult daughters.
Why do I write? Partly because I have a compulsive need to express myself, partly because I don’t have to commute and partly because I’m not much good at anything else.
#TheStrangeCourtshipOfAbigailBird
FOLLOW ME ON GOODREADS
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